Eskill

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Eskill (* probably before 1372 in Gudbrandsdalen ; † March 11, 1428 in Nidaros ) was Archbishop of Nidaros from 1402 to 1428 .

Eskill is first mentioned as a canon in Nidaros in 1395. After the death of Archbishop Vinald, the cathedral chapter elected Eskill as archbishop on December 20, 1402. The fact that he came from Gudbrandsdalen is interpreted to mean that the cathedral chapter wanted to oppose the occupation policy of Margaret I , which used to appoint the highest offices in her territory regardless of their ethnicity. Nevertheless, Margarethe seems to have supported him.

That choice cost him dearly. The papal confirmation cost him 800 gold florins to the Pope and 100 gold florins to the cardinals . To do this, he had to undertake to pay his predecessors' outstanding taxes of 1,240 gold florins. He paid 400 immediately through the Pagani Bank in Perugia, and the rest over the next two years. The regent Margaret may have lent him the money; for at his death he owed the crown.

Eskill began his office under the occidental schism between Rome and Avignon, which lasted from 1378 to 1417. He was on the side of the Roman Pope. In 1406 he became papal general collector in his ecclesiastical province. In that year he consecrated Andrés as the last bishop for Greenland, but it is no longer known whether he even got there. After the Council of Pisa he joined Pope Alexander V , who was elected there . In 1411 he became its apostolic nuncio . He was also invited to the Council of Constance in 1414 , but it is unknown whether a Norwegian representative was present at all. But now he went to see the Pope every third year. He also visited his ecclesiastical province regularly.

There were often conflicts with the cathedral chapter over the distribution of income and patronage rights . The greatest dispute arose over the parish church of Trondenes . When he was still canon, he had this church as a benefice . It was the greatest benefice in the diocese. He did not want to give up this income after changing to the office of bishop, although the pastor's position had formally become unmarried. The Pope filled the position in 1406 with the curia secretary Johannes Borzow. But this could not prevail against the archbishop. He turned to the Pope, which probably led to a comparison; because Borzow was later a representative of Eskill to the Pope. In 1420 the Pope allowed the archbishop to merge the parish church of Trondenes and the hospital of Idavollen in Nidaros and add them to the deanery in the cathedral chapter.

Eskill determinedly ensured the consolidation of the economic foundations of the archbishopric, which were secured around 1400. Fishing and trading in fish was the main source of income. This is also shown by the pledge of crown property on Bjarkøy on Senja by Ladejarl Håkon Sigurdsson to Eskill for 14 loads of cod in 1406.

Remarks

  1. ↑ So Martinsen. Haug, on the other hand, writes that Margarethe I herself supported the election.
  2. ↑ Skarðsárannáll on the year 406.

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predecessor Office successor
Vinald Henriksson Archbishop of Nidaros
1402–1428 		Aslak Bolt
personal data
SURNAME Eskill
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian Archbishop
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1428
Place of death Nidaros